Woohoo! Big news!! One method of Energy Psychology (TFT) has now been accepted as an evidence-based treatment for things like Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorders and Symptoms, Self-Regulation, and Personal Resilience/Self-Concept.

This means the field of Energy Psychology is finally moving off the “woowoo” list and onto the scientifically validated list.

As humans, we have this need to assign MEANING to everything that happens. And with that meaning comes the categorization of things as “positive” or “negative” for us or others. Subsequently, with that categorization, comes emotional response. Things categorized as “negative” elicit negative emotional energy, and vice versa. And negative emotional energy leads to suffering (in many forms, either with the emotion itself or with the destructive behaviors it leads to).

Read the rest of this post to learn a simple 5-step process to quickly turn any negative emotion neutral or even to something positive.

The weeks of Christmas and New Years are usually a time when people (especially employees) go into “coast mode,” just doing the bare minimum of work until the end of the year.

But if you’re a small business owner or sales professional, it’s important to not let the opportunities of these last 2 weeks slip past you because you become “complacent.” In fact, you may have “year-end sales quotas” to fulfill–either from your employer or from yourself (hopefully you set an annual income goal at the beginning of the year).

If you are a coach or healer, you are likely often working yourself out of clients because they are dealing with short-term specific goals/challenges, which you help them resolve in a few sessions or a few months and then they’re “done.”

Although there are sometimes ways you can continue to offer services or products to them for the same or other issues, there are times when they truly don’t need anything else. Then it’s time to find another client to take their place (and the income you were receiving from them).

If your client turnover is frequent, here are a few simple tips to help you find more just like them (especially the ones you loved working with).

When doing a VIP Day with a new business client recently, she asked the million-dollar question–one that will impact the success of her start-up business at the very core:

How do I choose a niche market that will be right for me?

If you don't get this right, it can cost you a lot of time, sleep, stress and money. Which is why I focus a good deal of time and teaching on this topic with all my clients (even established ones if they are struggling to make a profit).

Aside from finding a market you can be passionate about helping and have the proven ability to help them, there are 6 criteria we look at that must be met in order to have a "viable niche." If any one of them is missing, you must change the niche. (And make sure you understand what a "niche" is in the first place)

I often get raised eyebrows at networking or business meetings when I share that I am a mindset coach for business owners, and that I use neuroscience techniques such as hypnosis to help people change their unproductive behaviors and achieve their goals more quickly, easily & permanently.

For those who show curiosity and ask to know more about why and how I use hypnosis, and if or how it could help them with THEIR business, I share the following explanation:

There is no lack of noise out there (books, blogs, newsletters, videos, internet, social media, teleseminars/webinars/ telesummits) touting the latest and greatest ways to achieve our goals (or that refer back to “old fashioned” or tried-and-true methods).

Yet ALL of them (unless they refer to the principle I teach here) are still either biased to one technique/tool/methodology, over-complicated, or bandwagon/flash-in-the-pan ideas. What I am presenting here is the bare-bones, stripped down, undeniable, fact-not-opinion TRUTH (few things can really be called that) about what ANY one, ANY time, in ANY situation, past/present/future needs to succeed in ANY endeavor.